Customize GenServer Behavior

Learn to customize GenServer behavior and use process registration to name individual games.

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Spawning and initializing a new GenServer process is a great start. However, the default callback implementations we get by using GenServer don’t go very far.

In order to build real applications, we need to change the way GenServer behaves to fit each application’s needs.

  • To do this, we’re going to follow the pattern we’ve ...